Asynchronous cgi that returns nothing. Possible? O:-)

[Fernando Rodríguez]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:17:01 -0000, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk>
wrote:

>In article <rphbcu8qlh4qgc1eonmrgts5ug7nv0u41v at 4ax.com>, Fernando Rodríguez wrote:
>> No. Step (b) processes the order and does give feedback. Step (a) saves in a
>> db some info conatined in a cookie (date of first visit and first referrer). I
>> want step (a) to be seamless.
>
>Must admit I don't have a clue what you mean. Why aren't scripts (a)
>and (b) in the same script?

Because I can't. Step (b) is a url to a third party payment processing company
and it's no tunder my control.

> If they really must be separate scripts,
>why doesn't script (a) just output nothing at all to stdout?

I didn't try it, but I think the browser wouldn't like a cgi url that doesn't
return any html content, no? O:-)



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Fernando Rodriguez